It’s funny how a shipwreck strips away the veneers of a marriage. There was no "checking out" or "scrolling" to avoid a disagreement. When we argued about how to keep the fire going through a tropical downpour, we had to solve it, or we’d be cold. When the silence of the ocean became deafening, we had to talk—really talk—to fill the space.
The Day the Engine Died: A Love Story (Shipwrecked, 2021) my wife and i shipwrecked on a desert island 2021
"It was either infection or anaphylaxis," she says. "I smoked the bees out with green palm fronds. John was hallucinating from the fever. I packed that wound with comb honey and wrapped it in a clean piece of my shirt." It’s funny how a shipwreck strips away the